Time Manipulation Buff

[BrandX]

Time Manipulation needs a -Regen buff imo.  Get it up there to mean something.

 

Either with Timel Crawl doing more than it's -100% or Time Stop doing more than it's -50% Regen when under the effects of Time Crawl.

 

I don't think this will overpower the set, but it will help it more with the single hard targets.

Edited August 28 by BrandX

[LightMaster]

-Regen tend to be hit-or-miss when it comes to being high enough to be viable though. Too many times, you either have some powers with -Regen that feels insignificant unless you stack with others, and other times you have other powers with -Regen that makes stopping even an AV’s Regen a bit too easy.

 

Envenomed Daggers can be considered as the latter as, since it’s a START Temp Power, every player can use it… and this little dagger has a whopping -250% Regen on hit. It is balanced by dealing minor Lethal damage and minor Toxic DoT, but it is still something to keep in mind… though Brute’s Fury begs differently.

 

-125% by Time Crawl and around -80% by Time Stop may help making Time Manipulation more specialized on -Regen as you stack on the single hard targets with these two powers.

[BrandX]

36 minutes ago, LightMaster said:

-Regen tend to be hit-or-miss when it comes to being high enough to be viable though. Too many times, you either have some powers with -Regen that feels insignificant unless you stack with others, and other times you have other powers with -Regen that makes stopping even an AV’s Regen a bit too easy.

 

Envenomed Daggers can be considered as the latter as, since it’s a START Temp Power, every player can use it… and this little dagger has a whopping -250% Regen on hit. It is balanced by dealing minor Lethal damage and minor Toxic DoT, but it is still something to keep in mind… though Brute’s Fury begs differently.

 

-125% by Time Crawl and around -80% by Time Stop may help making Time Manipulation more specialized on -Regen as you stack on the single hard targets with these two powers.

 

And neither Time Crawl or Time Stop do damage (unless one slots with procs).   I was thinking Time Crawl could lead to Time Stop having a much higher -Regen, like 150%.  So you'd still have to take Time Crawl to stack with Time Stop for that 250% total.

 

I'd of course like to see it a bit higher.  Split between two powers, why not Time Crawl to 150% and Time Stop to 150% or keep it at 50% but add another 100% if the target is effected by Time Crawl.

 

So 300% total, which would still be less than other's 500% but would likely still be noticable.

[MTeague]

Time is in a really good spot already. I'm not convinced any changes are needed.

I wouldn't refuse it, but there are other Support Sets in greater need of love, imho.

[Psyonico]

I agree that time's -regen is lackluster,  however,  I also agree with @MTeague that

 

6 hours ago, MTeague said:

Time is in a really good spot already. I'm not convinced any changes are needed.

I wouldn't refuse it, but there are other Support Sets in greater need of love, imho.

 

[BrandX]

On 8/29/2025 at 8:15 AM, MTeague said:

Time is in a really good spot already. I'm not convinced any changes are needed.

I wouldn't refuse it, but there are other Support Sets in greater need of love, imho.

 

True, but this amount of love, I figure is easy to implement and not require much in the way of testing, like other sets that could use some love would need.

 

 

[Indystruck]

Is that thing where Temporal Manipulation's build up gets cancelled by Time Manipulation's Temporal Selection still there, because that should be fixed too if so

[shortguy on indom]

• IMHO TIME IS STOUT.  NOT A FAN OF POWER CREEP.  HOWEVER WOULD SUPPORT SOME REDUCED ARCANA TIME(S) IF ANYTHING.
• FEAR THAT IF TIME GETS ON RADAR FOR BALANCE ISSUES, IT MAY CHANGE INTO SOMETHING NOT AS FUN.

 

On 8/31/2025 at 1:02 PM, Indystruck said:

Is that thing where Temporal Manipulation's build up gets cancelled by Time Manipulation's Temporal Selection still there, because that should be fixed too if so

• NEVER KNEW THIS WAS A THING.